3/30/2012 10:00 AM PDT

Odds of Winning Mega Millions -- You Got a Better Chance of Dying By Flesh-Eating Bacteria

If you think you can win this week’s mega lottery, think again ... you have a better chance of being killed by flesh-eating bacteria than rolling in lottery gold.

The Mega Millions jackpot is at $640 Million (and rising), with odds of winning at roughly 1 in 176 Million ... but get this ... 1 in 3 people think winning the lottery is the ONLY way to be financially secure in life (eeek!).

So we looked into the odds and found a bunch of crap that is more likely to happen to you ...

-- Death by lightning: 1 in 2,650,000-- Death by flesh-eating bacteria: 1 in 1,000,000 -- Getting eaten by a shark: 1 in 11,000,000-- Death by fireworks: 1 in 1,000,000